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nothing from the soil which affects fer
tilization in the way that wheat and
other crops do.
In Saxony. ponds stud the fields in
every direction, and TEEN with carp,
tench and other fish which thrive in
sluggish waters.
Fowls allowed to run about are the
scavengers of the farm, making use of
many things which would else go to
waste or be of no account.
A teaspoonful of spirits of turpentine
in pint and half of cornmeal is con-
sidered one of the best remedies for
gapes when fed to young chicks.
According to experiments made at the
Pennsylvania State College, soiling rye
yields twenty tons per acre of green
crop, and pasture grass seven and half
tons.
The best soils for wool are also the
best for mutton, and it is necessary that
the land be dry, for damp soils are fruit
full causes of such diseases as liver rot,
fuke and foot rot.
The asparagus bed must be attended
to early. Fork in plentiful supply Of
fine, well-rotted manure, 80 as to allow
the rains to carry down the soluble por-
tions to the roots Of the plants.
A correspondent of the English Far
mers' Gazette asserts that five pounds of
common white beans ground fine and fed
in half pound doses of bran twice daily
will cure the worst case of bloody milk.
It is recommended that to prevent
COWS or steers from jumping over fences
q horseshoe be nailed to one of the fore
feet, which prevents the hoof from
spreading, and consequently renders the
animal unable to spring.
Darwin, by experiment, proved that
carrying pollen from plant to plant and
thus fertilizing flowers. One hundred
heads of red clover, from which insects
wero excluded, ripened seedless.
All fowls that feather slowly are usu-
ally hardy. For instance, the Brahmas.
1t is owing to the fact that the drain on
the system occasioned by quick feather.
ing does not weaken them. Slow feath-
ering while growing is indicative OF
hardness.
To train flock of sheep take lamb
to the house and teach it to come at the
call of certain sound, and then put ii
with the flock. As sheep follow the
leader, the whole flock may be called by
the obedience shown on the part of the
petted sheep.
An excellent mixture of hay for all
classes of stock is one-third clover hay
with timothy and red-top, which is much
better than either one alone, as the mix
ture is more complete in food elements.
It should be fed with an allowance OF
ground grain also.
The Montreal Witness says: "The
average yield of butter in fair to good
dairies, of fifty COWS or over, is 1'5 to
200 pounds cow; in very good dairies,
$50; and a dairy which yields three hun
dred pounds year per cow is rare in our
best butter sections.
The use of chloride of potassium is
recommended in Germany as means of
increasing the growth of wool on sheep,
as German chemists have found it bene-
fetal for that purpose. 1t is admins
tered in the proportion of one part chlo-
ride to one part salt.
Save all the wood ashes carefully, and,
after the orchards are plowed. scatter
the ashes over the plowed ground liber-
ally, and harrow the ground well. This
incorporates the ashes with the soil, and
assists in inducing chemical changes and
the formation of plant food. There is q
large portion of lime in wood ashes as
we'll as potash.
A Western farmer advises stringing
seed corn by tying the ears together with
husks in some pace where the grain can
be saturated with coal smoke. The
odor, he says, repels squirrels and worms
fIom eating the seed. The seed comes
up quicker, the plants grow more vigor-
ously, and ripen several days earlier than
from seed not so treated.
Too long feeding is common mistake
in fattening fowls for market. 1t takes
off the profits when a shorter time will
answer. If kept in dark place and
stuffed with all they can eat they viii!
fatt in twelve days or two weeks, and
if this be continued much longer they
will begin to get poor again. Those to
be hept over should not be subjected to
this fattening, or rather stutfing, pro-
cess.
Somebody is credited with making
q good suggestion aDout scalding hogs
butchering day on the farm. He pro.
poses the use of hogshead set upright
in place OF barrel leaned over, and g
lover like well-sweep to use for drop
ping the hogs into the water and raising
them out. This would be much easier
and faster than the old way of sliding
the hogs into barrel and rolling them
about. It is better, too, because there
is much larger quantity of water, and
it will not cool as fast as the smaller
quantity in barrel.
It has been ascertained that to keep q
sheep in good thriving condition, fifteen
pounds Of perfectly dry feed (of average
good quality is required per week for
each one hundred pounds of live weight.
But since hay and grain, in their ordi-
nary condition, contain about fourteen
per cent. of water, from eighteen 10
twenty pounds per week will be neces-
sary, or about three pounds per day. To
facilitate digestion and prevent constipa-
ton, itwould be we'll if an equivalent
of this amount of nutriment could be
expanded in bulk, so as to weigh seven
or eight pounds.
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